incomes, hence progress for wage-earners can ‘imperil’ peasants.
This is totally falacious, for the income of the two have different
sources. People who argue thus would have us believe that we
can rise the incomes of rural dwellers simply by lowering those of
wage-earners. Perhaps it is no accident that such people in arguing
for the restriction of wages for the sake of ‘socialistic develop-
ment’ never say anything about profits which have a direct
bearing upon wages.

Nevertheless, the second positive aspect was that the adoption
of the Arusha Declaration and its attendant policies helped a great
deal in raising the political consciousness of the population as a
whole. Beginning with the Declaration, socialist ideas began to
spread and permeate all of society rapidly; as concepts such as
capitalism, exploitation, socialism, etc., were propagated, ex-
plained and popularised, it became possible for the workers in par-
ticular to articulate more and more objectively and concretely the
contradictions which the population had always felt to exist.
Hence the Declaration radicalised the social relations in the coun-
try and it was not long before the people, in particular the workers
in industries, began to demand more rapid implimentation of the
letter and spirit of the Declaration.

These two aspects of the sixties — the fact that the working
class was growing stable and its political consciousness was rising
rapidly — became the main pillar for new activity of the working
class in the seventies.

Beginning with 1970, a new wave of strikes in factories began
and it has been going on up to the present time. At first, strikes
originated from workers demands for better forms of management
and administration on the part of the managers. In particular, the
promulagation on the part of the managers. In particular, the
promulagation of the ‘TANU Guidelines’ in 1971 gave the
workers a ready and potent instrument for their struggle against
bureaucratic control and domination. As is well-known the pattern
of management and organisation in capitalist relations of produc-
tion is characteristically commandist and autocratic. The policies
of the Arusha Declaration and the TANU Guidelines advocated
for the putting into the people’s hands of the means of production
and the active involvement by the people in the management of
those enterprises and institutions. But obviously the traditional
forms of management were bound to seriously militate against any

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